Tao2020

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Tao2020
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Tao2020
Author(s) Hongyin Tao
Title Formulaicity without expressed multiword units
Editor(s) Ritva Laury, Tsuyoshi Ono
Tag(s) EMCA, Multiword unit, Interactional linguistics, Underspecification, Discourse, Adverbials, Connectives, Formulaic expressions, Fixed expressions, Elliptical forms
Publisher John Benjamins
Year 2020
Language English
City Amsterdam
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Pages 71-98
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DOI 10.1075/pbns.315.04tao
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Book title Fixed Expressions: Building Language Structure and Social Action
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Abstract

In this chapter, I investigate three types of formulaic structure that can be characterized as underspecified with elliptical materials and lacking the kind of expressed multiword units as typically conceived. The elliptical or source structures are shown to manifest in different unit sizes: (a) simple constituents such as modifiers/quantifiers, (b) phrasal units of various types, and (c) larger clausal units or complex turn-constructional units and the use of conjunctions. As elliptical forms of formulaic expressions are found at multiple levels of linguistic structure, this chapter raises a range of theoretical questions concerning formulaicity, including the prevailing conceptualization of formulaic language or fixed expression, proportions of prefabricated constructions in human language, mechanisms of storage and retrieval, as well as cross-linguistic properties of formulaic language.

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